On a flight this week I mentioned to the person sitting next to me that I had worked from a home office for the past 15 years and they were surprised that the distractions of working from home didn’t interfere with getting my work done.

In my case, my office is in a separate building across the drive-way from my house. It has separate power, heating, air conditioning, internet access, alarm system, video surveillance, and killer guard dog 🙂 .

Above is were I spend most of my day. It’s about 4 or 5 times the size of an average cubicle and there is room for 4 of these areas.

I calculate that I could comfortably house 10-12 people

I have too much hardware 🙂 but keep some of it for retro testing. The CRTs are heavy but all high resolution.

Geeks need a great library, and yes “junior”, I know about e-books. Everyone in my family owns a Kindle but I’m old school and there is something about holding a “real” book that still appeals to me.

I have a separate A/V area with sound dampening for recording podcasts and other audio.

Note the green screen and studio lighting for video production.

The down side of have an office that is a 20 step community from home is that it’s easy top spend too much time there !

Love the post but I have to know. How many of those books have you really read? That is seriously more than my local bookstore by a good mile or two. I thought I was a book whore but clearly I need to work on some speed reading skills.

JoeStagner on
September 4th, 2011 2:05 pm

I’ve read probably 1/2 of them cover to cover. Others I read specific chapters of interest.

That is one awesome office Joe and an amazing library that any geek would be envious of, I echo your sentiment on owning physical books vs e-books. How long have you been building that collection up for?

Matt on
September 5th, 2011 10:03 am

Nasa called, they want some of their screens back for the control room!

I really like seeing these kinds of pictures. I have a home office as well however I prefer a minimalist (clean desk, and shelves) environment. Today, I literally just cleared my office of all but 3 or 4 technical books. I have been accumulating books for 6-8 years and it was definitely time to start fresh.

I use 4 x 20″ lcd’s and have migrated primarily to electronic resources over the years. Would love to have a separate building-office setup. One day I hope…

Thanks again for the pictures.

Wilson on
September 7th, 2011 5:26 am

That’s awesome. But do you feel lonely when you work in your own office?

Joe that office is so AWESOME! That picture could be blown up and used one of those cliche motivational or converserly a sarcastic remark could be placed under it, like “So you want to be a programmer? Good Luck” or something like that. Bookmarked 🙂